This report revisits the growth and convergence performance of the 11 EU member states in Central, East and Southeast … growth. The findings show that convergence has significantly slowed since the global financial crisis, with value added … growth declining in virtually all industries. This slowdown is attributed to structural rather than cyclical factors, with …

This paper addresses the controversial issue of the direct and indirect effects of public R&D on growth. We look at six … variables of R&D-driven growth jointly for 14 OECD countries using methods of dynamic systems for panel data analysis: GDP … domestic private R&D, technical change and the GDP. Permanent changes in foreign public and private R&D have positive growth …